Italo Calvino

Now you mustn't think that I don't have any ideas for novels in my head. I've got ideas for ten novels in my head. But with every idea I have, I already foresee the wrong novels I would write, because I also have critical ideas in my head; I've got a full theory of the perfect novel, and that's what stumps me.

Italian Journalist

William Gilbert

If you wish in this world to advance your merits you're bound to enhance; You must stir it and stump it, and blow your own trumpet, Or, trust me, you haven't a chance.

British Composer

Jennifer McMahon

Poetry taught me a great deal about language and images, but when it came to plotting, I was stumped. It's been very much a learn-by-doing thing for me.

American Novelist

Henry Rollins

I forged myself out of a vacuum. I crawl along the highway on hacked off stumps year after year. Some wonder how and why. I never do.

American Musician

Ana Navarro

Charlie Crist has gone through his entire political life with one stump speech - his grandfather polishing shoes.

American Critic

Yuzvendra Chahal

Even regular keepers miss stumping chances and miss catches. These things happen.

Nikki Cox

If I didn't have fake nails, my fingers would be bloody stumps.

American Actress

Jasprit Bumrah

When you see the stumps flying, that's the best feeling.

Indian Athlete

Jonathan Miles

I once stumped Jimmy Buffett by calling him a saint.

Murray Walker

You can cut the tension with a cricket stump.

English Entertainer

Using 'stump' to explain challenges in removing entrenched objects, not just trees.

Removing Difficulty

'Tree stump' commonly describes nature scenes or outdoor activity contexts.

Natural Context

Use 'stump' when expressing that an intellectual challenge is difficult to overcome.

Intellectual Challenge

Implies an unexpected difficulty, often used when problems arise without easy answers.

Unexpected Difficulty

Used to visualize small leftovers, often of everyday items.

Leftover Visual

Hints at the end of consumption; useful in settings like meals or using items regularly.

Consumption Indicator

Specific to political contexts, indicating campaign efforts by a candidate.

Political Campaigning

Often used during election periods when candidates actively seek support.

Election Season

 obviously you can see here there's tree stumps and so on around us and they do fell a certain number of trees which is allows a lot of light to get into you get more undergrowth and more interesting opportunities for other animals so it's kind of creating not just biodiversity it's creating structural diversity which is so important in ecology

Wild Beavers Return...

 the world they look as if they've been sculpted by some truly tormented mind this one here is less than a thousand years old they can get to be at least twice that age the woods have such high quality so full of resin but even a couple of hundred years after the tree dies the stump

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 They remember where all those seeds are. They even use landmarks on the landscape -- trees, stumps, rocks -- to triangulate to caches buried deep under the snow. What they don't go back and get, those seeds become whitebark. This symbiosis is so important to both species

Symbiosis: A surprising...

 they brought together all these scientists, and they were stumped. And the beginnings of the cure to the disease came from the most unlikely source, a dairy farmer who noticed that the milkmaids were not getting smallpox. And the smallpox vaccination is bovine-based

Color blind or color...

 No one knew how the tower was still standing, but the crisis was they had to solve a problem that stumped centuries of engineers, and they needed to do it fast. To understand their situation, it’s helpful to understand why the tower tilted in the first place.

Why doesn’t the Leaning...

 duet Peter stumps behind the scenes meticulousness again another core trait of these Invisibles he doesn't care if anyone knows about all the details he did he just wants a great end result we're told that we need to promote ourselves and we do sometimes in

Why being invisible can...

 because when you threaten its life from its roots it throws off things folk basil sprouts so the exact genetic fingerprint of this stump and any other stump in this whole region is in the basil sprouts I have a real affinity for these stumps

One Man’s Mission to...

 land he sleeps and tree stumps like this one but he didn't always leave this kind of life owned a couple of houses and cars and all that kind of life and one day I just grabbed my gear and just walked on back here in the mountains I

Meet Mick Dodge PIPE The...

 over the last 20 years roads have cut deep into this once virgin wilderness and timber clear-cutting has turned some of the bears summer stomping grounds into stump fields as development extends further

Alaska Brown Bear...

 the world's shortest river stumped the world's shortest river is the D river and it's located right here

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